The key ceremony is a (perhaps now not-so-very) secretive meeting of some powerful people who have a staggering amount of control over the internet. As reported by The Guardian, these seven keyholders are handpicked security experts who meet quarterly and whose individual digital keys "create a master key, which in turn controls one of the central security measures at the core of the web." The experts have exclusive access to the domain name system (DNS), which is basically the directory of everything online, "as part of a new global effort to make the whole domain name system secure and the internet safer." Every time they meet, they flush out fake and dangerous web addresses.
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